From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> If a fs modification (creation, file write, reflink, etc.) is unable to reserve enough space to handle the modification, try clearing whatever space the filesystem might have been hanging onto in the hopes of speeding up the filesystem. The flushing behavior will become particularly important when we add deferred inode inactivation because that will increase the amount of space that isn't actively tied to user data. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c index e72730f85af1..2b92a4084bb8 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ #include "xfs_trace.h" #include "xfs_error.h" #include "xfs_defer.h" +#include "xfs_inode.h" +#include "xfs_icache.h" kmem_zone_t *xfs_trans_zone; @@ -256,8 +258,10 @@ xfs_trans_alloc( struct xfs_trans **tpp) { struct xfs_trans *tp; + unsigned int tries = 1; int error; +retry: /* * Allocate the handle before we do our freeze accounting and setting up * GFP_NOFS allocation context so that we avoid lockdep false positives @@ -285,6 +289,22 @@ xfs_trans_alloc( tp->t_firstblock = NULLFSBLOCK; error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resp, blocks, rtextents); + if (error == -ENOSPC && tries > 0) { + xfs_trans_cancel(tp); + + /* + * We weren't able to reserve enough space for the transaction. + * Flush the other speculative space allocations to free space. + * Do not perform a synchronous scan because callers can hold + * other locks. + */ + error = xfs_blockgc_free_space(mp, NULL); + if (error) + return error; + + tries--; + goto retry; + } if (error) { xfs_trans_cancel(tp); return error;